The meal was also eaten, the day was also chatted, and the dragon boat race was about to arrive. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The dragon boat race of the Great Cloud Country, which is the reserved program of the Dragon Boat Festival that has been inherited by the Great Cloud Country for hundreds of years, has always been deeply loved by the people of the Cloud Kingdom.

Not only the people of Shengjing City, but also some people from neighboring states and counties, will get up early and rush to Shengjing City many days in advance, just to be able to see the grand occasion of the Dragon Boat Race on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival.

This dragon boat race was originally just a sacrificial activity, just like the dragon and lion dance, and the performance was mostly of a performance.

Because the Dragon Boat Festival is a critical period for crop growth, some years are not beautiful, it has been dry, and the Dragon Boat Festival is very dry, which has the greatest impact on the growth of crops.

Therefore, in ancient times, people sacrificed on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, asking God to bless the crops with good weather.

Because it has been held for many years, I don't know what happened, but slowly this performance project turned out to be a competition project.

Hundreds of years of development to the present day, it has become a national celebration project.

The land area of the Great Cloud Country is huge, the land is vast and the resources are vast, with a total of 23 prefectures and counties, and hundreds of cities and counties.

Each state and county first selected a team of dragon boats a few months in advance, and this team was trained by professionals and gathered in the moat of Shengjing City on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival.

It can be said that the dragon boat team members of the Great Cloud Country are not so much the people who represent the state and county, but more of a profession or a superstar.

It's similar to how we feel like an Olympian or a World Cup football star in our modern society.

Such solemnity, such grandeur, how not to make people fascinated.

Needless to say, this game is not only about honor, but also about wealth and money.

Since Emperor Wuchang ascended the throne, he has added some new colors to the dragon boat competition, which is 'dragon boat racing'.

Oh, this 'dragon boat race' is not a dragon boat race, its nature is a bit like what we call horse racing, or betting on ball.

That's right, it's gambling.

Before each game, the people can understand according to their own judgment and choose the winner in their minds, if the team they choose really wins, then the people can win a certain amount of silver.

Unlike many ancient China, there is no such thing as a casino in the Great Cloud Country.

It's not that the people of Dayun don't like to gamble, it's just that casinos mostly use all kinds of gambling tricks to harm the people.

From ancient times to the present, I don't know how many tragic things have happened in various places where people have gone bankrupt and sold their children because of gambling.

Therefore, since the current emperor ascended the throne, he ordered to inspect the casinos in various places, check one by one, and in a few years, the casino has almost disappeared in the land of the Great Cloud Kingdom.

And this dragon boat race has also become the only legal gambling thing in Dayun Country.

Because the dealer is a court court, it is legal.

The imperial court is naturally wealthy, and the multiplier of silver is higher.

If you can guess all the games correctly from beginning to end, then you will get even more silver.

Over the years, I don't know how many people have become rich overnight because of this 'dragon boat race', and have become rich and rich.

After all, who in this world doesn't want to get rich overnight?

Who doesn't want to get something in return without paying?

This is also the reason why all kinds of lotteries are so popular in modern society.

In fact, whether it is ancient or modern, although the degree of social development is very different, in fact, the people are almost the same.

In other words, human beings are all the same.

A few days before the Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat race began, the moat as the competition venue was occupied by some local people with small benches and small tables.

Because the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching summer and the weather is not too cold, these people dragged their families to sleep by the river with quilts, just to occupy a good position on the day of the competition.

Originally, this situation was not so serious in previous years, but as more and more people slept by the moat, the competition became more and more fierce, and everyone slept by the river more and more earlier.

Some people even start a 'camping' life a week in advance.

There are also new occupations developed by some people, which is to help people sleep by the river, help people occupy positions, and then sell their good positions to others at a high price.

I have to say that this is also the ancestor of 'scalpers'.

The competition became more and more fierce, and there were some people who were not very good-tempered, and they began to quarrel and scuffle over the seats, just like when we went to the library to get a seat at the end of the term.

These ancient people were not as high-quality as our current college students, so the frequency of disputes was also extraordinarily high.

Because it was a folk celebration, the emperor really didn't think about buying tickets to make money or anything like that, but because the competition became more and more fierce because of this situation, the emperor finally made a decision: Forget it, it's better to help the treasury get more accounts than cheap scalpers.

As a result, the dragon boat race has also changed from a free celebration to a paid performance.

But even so, there is still an endless stream of people coming, and there are crowds of people, but the whole is full of order because of the escort of the tiger guards.

When the emperor brought Tang Fei here, the entire moat was already crowded with people.

Some of the rich were in the front, and some even prepared seats and snacks, while some who couldn't afford good tickets gathered in the back, but they didn't see the slightest disappointment, just looked excited and cheered.

The position prepared for the emperor and Tang Fei was on a high platform built in the middle of a moat track.

The platform is very well built, in the middle of the track, and it is so high that it has an unobstructed view of the entire race coast.

I heard that in order to build this platform, the officials of the household department spent a lot of thought, and it was after a long time of back and forth comparison that they found such a place with the best view.

Tang Fei sat on the high platform, not only could he see the entire process of the game clearly, but even the movements and demeanors of some people were clear.

There's still a little bit of work to start the game, and no matter what the game is, there's always going to be some ritual at the beginning.

Now it is the governor of Shengjing City who is speaking.

It's just that there were no microphones in ancient times, let alone microphones and the like, so although this Fu Yin was brought by a big speaker from his subordinates, there were already many people on the banks of the moat, and there were many noisy people, so no one really listened to what he said.

Tang Fei still wanted to listen to it at the beginning, after all, he showed respect to others.

But then I really couldn't hear it, so I began to watch the people along the coast be distracted, carefully observing their every move.

Not to mention, this feeling of 'seeing the mountains at a glance' is really good, and it is the people's livelihood that is in front of you.

There is really a feeling that "Qingming Riverside Picture" has come true.